Akismet

We’ve improved the accuracy of the Akismet stats feature that was introduced in Akismet 2.2.1. You might notice a slight change in the total spam, comments and accuracy figures reported at the top of your stats page, and the percentages shown in the pie chart. The Historical Stats figures and time graphs are unaffected – [...]

Just a bit after a year after we welcomed Defensio to the market it’s just been announced that that they’re being swallowed by the public security company Websense. Given the size of Defensio’s team and user base it probably wasn’t a huge acquisition, but this is still an important validation of the  space in general [...]